caspian - crawlspace

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Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty.... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpungable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses' beard! - Aldous Huxley